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Major Cloud Service Outage Impacting Campus Applications

Date: June 12, 2025 Time: 3:45 PM  The Division of Information Technology is aware of a widespread outage with a major cloud service provider that is currently impacting access to a number of...

Posted: June 12, 2025, 3:47 PM

New Voicethread URL starting June 30

UMBC users will use: voicethread.com

Please note that after June 30, 2025, your UMBC VoiceThread account may be accessed via:  https://voicethread.com   Currently UMBC users may access VoiceThread via: https://umbc.voicethread.com. ...

Posted: June 9, 2025, 1:16 PM

The letters v and t surrounded by a circle. The word Voicethread appears below, in boldface.

DoIT to power down the retired Rolm phone system on Monday June 9th

DoIT will power down the old Rolm based phone system

On Monday, June 9th, DoIT will be permanently shutting down the retired Rolm based phone system. Now that the campus has been migrated to the Cisco VoIP phone system, no impact to services or...

Posted: June 6, 2025, 2:35 PM

New Editor Rollout - Rich Text

You may have noticed something new in RT! Starting today, we're turning on the rich text editor by default. Many RT Power Users knew that you could turn this on in your profile settings, by...

Posted: June 4, 2025, 9:41 PM

UMBC Alert Renewal Messages Are Legitimate

Over the weekend, some members of the UMBC community may have received messages (via text or email) like the ones shown below, prompting users to renew their UMBC Alert account. These messages...

Posted: June 2, 2025, 12:32 PM

SAP Concur Travel System – Entering the Next Phase

DoIT has been working closely with Administration & Finance on the SAP Concur Travel System Implementation! We are excited to begin testing and change management planning. Please see the below...

Posted: June 2, 2025, 9:07 AM